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Response inhibition is a multifaceted process involving either the ability to withhold a speeded motor response prior to its initiation, or the ability to cancel a response after it has been initiated (Wright et al., 2014). Individual differences in the ability to withhold inappropriate responses have been extensively investigated with different variants of the Go/No-Go task (e.g., Chowdhury et al., 2017; Wessel et al., 2017; Young et al., 2017), varying with respect to the colour and shape of stimuli, the relative proportion of Go/No-Go trials, and inter-trial intervals. To date, these manipulations were mainly used to investigate motor inhibition performance at the individual level, but what happens to cognitive processes traditionally regarded as individual, like attention or inhibitory control, when a social component is considered? In this pre-registered study, we aim to validate a social version of the classical Go/No-Go task both in the laboratory and online. In these two settings, we are going to compare participants’ performance (accuracy and reaction times) in both individual and social conditions to test 1) whether the mere presence or the interaction with another person affects our control over prepotent motor responses, and 2) whether the degree of shared attention and goals, e.g. when coordinating the efforts jointly or competing, is reflected in the individual performance. Overall, we expect to report enhanced inhibitory capacity when comparing social vs. individual conditions, and stronger modulations when a joint vs. competitive goal is pursued (e.g., faster responses but more errors in the latter).
| If you're submitting a poster, would you be interested in giving a blitz talk? | No |
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